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Christoph Schreiner

• PhD awarded in Physics by the University of Goettingen, Germany
• MD awarded in Medicine by the University of Goettingen, Germany
• Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
• Director, Coleman Memorial Laboratory
• Faculty, Neuroscience Graduate Program
• Faculty, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
• Faculty of the Herbert W. Boyer Program in Biological Sciences
  (PIBS)

Our understanding of the neural bases of the higher brain functions underlying human speech and language is still very limited. In an effort to approach this subject from a perceptual viewpoint, we apply electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and computational methods in combination with psychophysical and behavioral techniques to study the coding of complex sounds in the central auditory system of carnivores and primates. Behaviorally relevant signals, such as environmental sounds, vocalizations, and speech sounds, have a very complex composition of their spectrum that varies rapidly over time. This inherent complexity and variability of sounds has proven to be very challenging for the systematic exploration of the mechanisms underlying signal identification and classification.

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